2 months ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture strategy for the Secure Private Access platform and Zero Trust technologies.
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native distributed systems.
- Influence architecture, engineering strategy, technical standards, and innovation across multiple organizations.
- Provide technical leadership during production incidents, customer escalations, and security events, including root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
- Advise engineering and executive leadership on technical direction and architectural decisions.
- Mentor Principal Engineers and develop technical leadership across the organization.
- Champion AI-enabled engineering practices and platform modernization.
- Drive adoption of SPA architecture, next-generation capabilities, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational improvements.
Requirements
- 15–18+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership in large-scale infrastructure, networking, or security platforms.
- Hands-on experience contributing to complex distributed systems and cloud-scale services.
- Deep expertise in networking and traffic processing, including data plane architectures, TCP/IP, DNS, WireGuard, and Layer 3/4/7 access enforcement.
- Strong programming experience in Go, C++, Rust, or similar systems languages.
- Deep understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, and identity systems.
- Expertise in one or more of Secure Private Access, Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Service Edge, SASE, VPN/secure connectivity, or enterprise access security platforms.
- Ability to influence engineering strategy across organizations without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving impactful technology decisions.
- Expertise in AI-enabled software engineering and platform modernization.
- Ability to translate customer requirements, operational learnings, and market needs into platform and architectural investments.
- Extensive experience leading large-scale production incident, customer escalation, and security event response, including executive communication and root cause analysis.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Pune.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
About SonicWall
SonicWall builds network and cloud security products for SMBs, enterprises, and the public sector, including next‑gen firewalls, secure remote access, email and endpoint security, and threat intelligence services. The company sells hardware plus subscription-based security services, primarily through a global channel of MSPs/MSSPs and resellers. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, SonicWall is privately held under Seahawk Holdings and was formerly part of Dell.